"Night of the Scorpion" is a poem by Nissim Ezekiel. It tells the story of a boy whose mother was stung by a scorpion, which had retreated underneath a sack of rice. The poem describes the attempts by the boy's father, the local peasants and the holy man to cure her, far away from Western medicine.
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- "Night of the Scorpion" is a poem by Nissim Ezekiel. It tells the story of a boy whose mother was stung by a scorpion, which had retreated underneath a sack of rice. The poem describes the attempts by the boy's father, the local peasants and the holy man to cure her, far away from Western medicine. The conflict between the peasants "buzzing the name of God" and the father, "sceptic, rationalist, trying every curse and blessing" because he is willing to try anything to save his wife, is the centre of the poem. At the end, the poison's effect subsides by itself "After twenty hours it lost its sting". His mother then thanked God that the scorpion had spared her children and had stung her instead. (Although some people do say that his mother died and at that point she was on God's 'right hand side' and was looking down at her children). The poem has been included in Different Cultures of the AQA Anthology for study at GCSE in the section Poems from other Cultures. It has also been added to the syllabus for Class 10 in the CBSE and class 9 in the ICSE curriculum in India.
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- "Night of the Scorpion" is a poem by Nissim Ezekiel. It tells the story of a boy whose mother was stung by a scorpion, which had retreated underneath a sack of rice. The poem describes the attempts by the boy's father, the local peasants and the holy man to cure her, far away from Western medicine.
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